Harassment in chess?

Harassment in chess?

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Hello everyone! 

I really didn't want to write this down, but it really hurts me what's happening here. 

Lately I had a really bad game against a person.


I was totally lost but somehow managed to win. He started sending me messages, that I am a loser, I should get a life and stuff like this. After he raged and left the game messaged my directly: "did you check the computer analysis, LOSER? i'm still laughing that you think you're a winner. you have the critical thinking skills of a woman."

This is not the only thing I'd like to talk about. There are a lot of perverts, disgusting people here, and I always report them, but they are still using chess.com and writing messages to all girls, like asking for their nudes and things like this.

Some example: "Exchange our nudes?" "you a f*cking a**hole" "Do you want make something with me? Exchange our photoes to know who texting us??" 

As a girl I experience it almost everyday on social media, but I am sick of experiencing it even on chess.com. I'd love to help admins to stop people like these somehow, or maybe let's just pay attention to messages like this, because lots of girls get messages like this, and we are all sick of these! 

Of course these are not the only messages I get on chess.com, because there are a lot of supporting people, who are kind and wishing me luck in the future, so I know that not everybody is bad on this site of course happy.png 

(Added on 13th november) So what should you do when someone sends you messages like this ? First of all, don't let them make you think, that you are a bad person, or player! Don't let them get what they want from you. Always stay safe and report instantly these accounts or write a message to the chess.com team. If you are a kid, you should talk about this with your parents, or family, because these people can be unmotivational for young people. Together we can stop them. 

Thanks for reading my post, I hope you have a nice day! happy.png 

(and btw every single text on the picture is from my messages happy.png )